- From: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:30:29 +0100 (MET)
- To: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Asmus Freytag writes: > For German, it is not an acceptable fall back to insert spaces between > letters for a narrow column. A significant portion of readers will > understand this to be *emphasized* text. This is true, even though this > form of emphasis is based on usage in Fraktur and typewritten style. It's > common enough still to affect the reader's perception. Yes, this exact example is also in our book (Lie & Bos, "Cascading Style Sheets" (1997), page 153) The default in CSS is indeed to allow the browser to vary the letter spacing, but the 'letter-spacing' property can force a particular value, including 0. I believe that is enough to deal with this particular problem. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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